Anastasia

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon